The features of enforcement in Roman law can be analyzed within the broader principles of civil procedural law, which in the Roman framework includes three segments. The first is the legislative procedure characterized by formalities and orality, in accordance with the approach of consciousness referring particular state and society circumstances of the time concerned and thus implementing the personal enforcement. It was moderated by the enactment of the Lex Poetelia Papiria de Nexis Act which introduced the possibility of repaying the debt by debtor's work for creditor. It is followed by a formal procedure which is also characterized by formalism, now visible in the written form required by the procedure. The debtor can still repay his debt by work for the creditor or by the venditio bonorum procedure (all the debtor's property is handed over to the plaintiff for the purpose of sale). The cognitive type of procedure, as the most recent, is marked by numerous novelties, such as the possibility of filing an appeal (appellatio) and the procedure of selling the debtor's property at a public auction as part of enforcement.